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We received a letter the other day from Christian friends in their 70s. Their lives are filled with travel and golf. What was intriguing was their explicit declaration that life was “boring” despite their describing each activity as “fun.” 

What’s wrong with this picture? It doesn’t sound as if they are experiencing the “abundant life” that Jesus promised:

I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly. (John 10.10, NKJV)

Some people may define the abundant life as living on a golf course and traveling to exotic places, but that strategy doesn’t seem to be working. (I’m not against golf or travel; remember, it is these people who describe their life as “boring.”)

Maybe no one has told these lovely people that God has important work for them to do no matter how old they are! That they can be generating Holy Moments that can impact the world. That if their antenna is up for people God wants them to help, they can be involved in the Great Adventure of the Great Commission. God wants to use them on their Frontlines.

But the worries of this life, the deceitfulness of wealth and the desires for other things come in and choke the word, making it unfruitful. (Mark 4.19, NIV)

I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful. (John 15.1, 2, NIV)

O God, from my youth you have taught me, and I still proclaim your wondrous deeds. So even to old age and gray hairs, O God, do not forsake me, until I proclaim your might to another generation, your power to all those to come. (Psalm 71.17, 18, ESV)